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The Pope spoke of Merton as a Cictercian monk, a man of prayer, who had entered this world in 1915 on the eve of the First World War. Quoting Merton's autobography, Pope Fransis read a core message from /Merton's pen expressed here in a paraphrase: "I came into this world as an image of God but found in myself an image of this world in opposition to my identity in God's personhood image - thus finding mmyself both loving and hating God."